Weekly Roundup: The Baffling Experience of Living With Long COVID

Plus: Miranda Lambert on the most unapologetically Texas album of her career.  [Texas Monthly](    TM This Week    [The Baffling Experience of Living With Long COVID]( My symptoms lasted for months and changed my life in ways large and small. [Read Story](   arts & entertainment   [Miranda Lambert on the Most Unapologetically Texas Album of Her Career]( ‘The Marfa Tapes,’ the musician’s new collaboration with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, finds the arena-rockin’ country star taking on campfire folk songs. [Read Story](  [The Texas Rangers Tried (and Failed) to Capture Pancho Villa. The Conflict Still Shapes the Texas-Mexico Border Today.]( Jeff Guinn’s ‘War on the Border’ punctures the myth of the Rangers as frontier heroes. [Read Story](  [7 Nostalgic Texas Hotels With Vinyl Record Collections]( With in-room record players, album lending libraries, and, in one case, a vinyl concierge, hotels around the state are embracing the record renaissance. [Read Story](  [Selena Deserves More Than Netflix Kitsch]( Part two of Netflix's Selena series delivers a more confident version of the Tejano icon than part one, but fails to portray the late singer as the nuanced person she was. [Read Story](  [50 Cent Is Texas’s Newest Celebrity Transplant]( Plus, Megan Thee Stallion talks to pets, Shea Serrano turns his childhood into a sitcom, and Eva Longoria brings Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to the big screen. [Read Story](  [Texas Monthly Celebrates Latest Awards and Nominations]( This week the magazine earned five National Magazine Award nods and won nine City and Regional Magazine Awards. [Read Story](  [TM Recommends: See Modern Art (and Eat Delicious Food) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]( Plus: a nine-year-old Texan steals the show in ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ and a podcast revisits the 2003 backlash against the Chicks. [Read Story]( Maxed Out on Free Articles Again? This free newsletter gets even better with unlimited access to all of our digital stories. [Subscribe today]( to save up to 33%. Offer ends soon! Already a subscriber? Thank you for making the stories we tell possible.   sports & Food  [From a Private Harris County High School, Three Players Appear to be NFL-Bound]( [Read Story]( [A New Pitmaster Finds His Footing at Smoak Town BBQ]( [Read Story]( [Why Texans Can Expect to Pay More for Corn Tortillas This Summer]( [Read Story]( [Inside Texas’s State High School BBQ Championship, from Fire Management to Flirting]( [Read Story](   news & politics  [Some Legislators Want to Drown Out Local Austin Officials by Cranking Up the Volume at Bars]( A House bill doesn’t identify the capital city by name, but would make it the lone municipality in Texas whose noise ordinances are set by the Lege. [Read Story]( [What Exactly Does John Cornyn Do All Day? Well, for One Thing, He Tweets. A Lot.]( A recent analysis found Texas’s senior senator is the most prolific tweeter in Congress—and uses the platform more than celebrities such as Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian. [Read Story]( [Austinites Ban Public Homeless Camps, While San Antonio Voters Protect the Police’s Ability to Collectively Bargain]( Plus, Lubbock becomes Texas's largest "sanctuary city for the unborn." [Read Story]( [Texas GOP Chair Allen West Challenges Tardy Reporter to Drop and Give Him Thirty]( At an odd press conference this week, the retired Army veteran performed the calisthenics himself when the reporter declined. [Read Story](   sponsored  [The Ultimate Texan Summer Travel Guide]( Have fun in the sun throughout Texas and beyond. Read the full story [here](.      Let's get social [Facebook](  [Instagram](  [Twitter](    [Texas Monthly]( [View in browser]( PO Box 1569, Austin, TX 78767 You are receiving this message because you signed up for our newsletters. Want more? Check out our [other newsletters](. [Manage your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( Â